Sarah Andrews

Still recuperating from her father's death and her mother's recovery from alcohol addiction, geologist and amateur sleuth Emily "Em" Hansen is out of work and unhappily whiling away her time on her family's Wyoming ranch. So when her former boss, oil millionaire J.C. Menken, asks Em for help—and offers to find her a job if she does—she has no choice but to accept.

J.C. wife Miriam died a mysterious death—and his teenaged